We performed a comparison between Datadog and Elastic Beats based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Splunk, Datadog, Wazuh and others in Log Management."We have found that we're able to get in and out of troubleshooting issues much more rapidly, which in turn, of course, enables us to spend more time on our products."
"We integrate our application logs. It is great to be able to tie our metrics and our traces together."
"For us to have visibility into our app stack and the hardware we run has been highly beneficial."
"Flame graphs are pretty useful for understanding how GraphQL resolves our federated queries when it comes to identifying slow points in our requests. In our microservice environment with 170 services."
"It is easy to navigate the menu and create tests."
"Even if we don't end up using Datadog, it revealed problems and optimizations to us that weren't obvious before."
"I have found some of the most valuable features to be the way things all come together that gives us a point of view that is useful. The panel is very beautiful and customizable."
"We find they have a very helpful alert system."
"The security aspects in general have been very useful to use."
"There's a whole spectrum of features on the solution that users can take advantage of. It's a very robust product."
"Datadog could have a better business analysis module."
"It could probably be a little bit of a better user experience."
"The dashboard could be improved. It would be helpful to get a view of specific things that we need to monitor for our application."
"In the past two years, there have been a couple of outages."
"All solutions have some area to improve, and in Datadog they can improve their overall technology moving forward."
"For three to four months, we have been experiencing real-time delays. For example, if we're monitoring incoming traffic, the real-time status should be displayed up to a certain point. However, due to delays or issues with Datadog, the real-time data might only be updated at an earlier time. We are experiencing consistent delays in data updates from Datadog, with the most recent data often being delayed by about an hour. This issue has been ongoing for the past four months."
"Datadog does not have the feature where you can monitor external websites or check the SSL secure for websites."
"The product needs a better Datadog agent installation."
"The dashboard is not user-friendly. The solution, in general, isn't great from a user's perspective."
"At some level, the documentation, the information as far as the components, it's sometimes a little difficult to find the information necessary to implement aspects."
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Datadog is ranked 2nd in Log Management with 137 reviews while Elastic Beats doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Log Management. Datadog is rated 8.6, while Elastic Beats is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Datadog writes "Very good RUM, synthetics, and infrastructure host maps". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Elastic Beats writes "A robust solution with a whole spectrum of features that's extremely scalable". Datadog is most compared with Dynatrace, Azure Monitor, New Relic, AWS X-Ray and AppDynamics, whereas Elastic Beats is most compared with .
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